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Portland State University's diversity summit instructed participants to sit at tables which matched their self-identified racial identity.

The House passed the Financial CHOICE Act (H.R. 10) in June 2017. The CHOICE Act is a comprehensive financial regulatory reform bill that would replace large parts of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Act. The Senate has not yet passed its own reform bill, but the Senate Banking Committee recently passed the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (S. 2155) with votes from four Democratic members of the committee.

President Bush has put forward a series of policy changes, aimed atimproving existing health care accounts, that would enableindividuals and families to control decisions regarding their ownhealth care and decide for themselves how best to spend theirhealth care dollars.

Small business has much to gain and very little to lose if Congressestablishes Social Security personal retirement accounts. Theseaccounts, which would allow taxpayers to invest a portion of theirSocial Security retirement taxes, would make capital more availableto small businesses without adding any appreciable administrativeburden.

One of the stated aims of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to increase competition among health insurance companies.[REF] That goal has not been realized, and by several different measures the ACA’s exchanges offer less competition and choice in 2017 than ev

Congress must weigh the few undesirable ISDS measures in the Trans-Pacific Partnership against the broader merits of most other provisions.

Congress should not lose sight of key conservative priorities as it considers whether (and how) to respond to the economic and fiscal crisis in Puerto Rico. The troubled territory has been a laboratory for progressive politics and crony capitalism for decades. Predictably, the government has smothered the private sector, and workers receive a lower share of income in Puerto Rico than in any of the 50 states.[1] Puerto Rico needs to be reformed, not rescued.

The Obama Administration’s controversial nuclear agreement with Iran dismantles the sanctions that forced Tehran to the negotiating table without dismantling any major element of Iran’s nuclear program. Centrifuges are retired but not destroyed. The illicit uranium enrichment facilities at Natanz and Fordow are constrained but not eliminated. The “anytime/anywhere” inspections that the Administration promised turn out to be “sometimes/some places” arrangements: U.N.

If the Shaheen–Portman bill saves money for families and businesses, Congress should question why taxpayer money is necessary to fund it.